Head of Product Design

Ingenovis Health

Building and leading design through a five-brand merger, three acquisitions, and a full platform unification.

My role: Head of Product Design

Timeline of My Contribution

2021


Foundations
  • Ingenovis Health founded from a 3-company, 5-brand merger
  • Hired 2 designers, bringing design in-house
  • Launched the Cura design system
  • Led the redesign of Fastaff’s electronic timesheet system

2022

System & Scaling
  • Vista Staffing and Springboard join the company
  • Started brand theming with design tokens
  • Began design system documentation
  • Launched Trustaff’s CMS platform and web portal redesign

2023

Expansion
  • Corazon joins the company
  • Launched marketing sites across 4 brands
  • Hired a 3rd designer
  • Managed the unified Trustaff web portal and mobile app
  • Designed TalentStack, our internal recruiter tool

2024

Unification
  • Released a unified portal, mobile app, and job pages across 3 brands
  • Expanded TalentStack’s features
  • Led the auto-submit job experience
  • Improved CMS, web portal, and mobile app UX

2025

AI & Migration
  • Launched AI-powered job suggestions for recruiters
  • Shipped portal dashboard and micro-collection updates
  • Migrated Healthcare Support onto the CMS marketing site
  • Launched TalentStack’s bulk candidate data addition and bulk matching feature

2026

AI & Refinement
  • Updated the sharable AI-powered job list to candidates
  • Launched the portal’s job application checklist feature
  • Redesigned the USN strike job experience
  • Led UX ideation for a job search filter revamp.

Remote Team Management​

Design, product, and engineering are working as a cohesive unit.

  • Our fully remote information technology team spans across the USA and Australia.
  • We have a highly engaged design team with approximately three years of collaboration.
  • We prioritize transparent communication, in-person meetups, and cross-functional engagement.

Design Process

How we build products that matter

I run design on a consistent cadence:

  • Usability testing and recruiter focus groups built into quarterly planning
  • Biweekly dev/design sync
  • Weekly design/product sync
  • Weekly design critique
  • Design retro at the end of every sprint.

Research Foundations

I developed a journey map by interviewing the brand’s stakeholders and analyzing past data.

User Interview & Testing

  • Advocate for user-centered product development.
  • Set up usability testing processes.
  • Provide planning and execution support.
  • Generate analysis reports.
  • Document user behavior findings.
  • Conduct user testing tool research.

Persona Creation

Research Foundation
  • User surveys and interviews
  • Demographic data
  • Recruiter interviews
Brand-Specific Personas
  • Fastaff: 1 persona
  • U.S. Nursing: 2 personas
  • Trustaff: 2 personas
IGV Persona

Cura Design System

Cura is our shared design system, serving all 4 products and now 9 brand themes — up from 5 at launch, with a dedicated module library for each product’s specific needs.

 

  • 700+ core components
  • 61 product-specific modules
  • 702 brand library styles
  • 164 pages of documentation

Impact

  • Grew the design team from a single outside vendor to a distributed in-house team of 4
  • Unified mobile app reached 53% adoption within months of launch
  • TalentStack saved recruiters 71+ hours in its first week 
  • The 2025 dashboard update lifted job-search conversion by ~29% — see the Portal Dashboard Update case study